Window on Eurasia: Putin Purges the (Non-Russian) Peoples Libraries and Schools
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – In 1969, Bertram Wolfe published his classic study, “Krupskaya Purges the People’s Libraries” in the London-based journal “Survey,” an essay in which he...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Shifts Focus from Boosting Birthrates to Cutting...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – In his message to the Federal Assembly yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin combined bombast, historical gnorance and dishonesty on a wide range of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Microsoft Story Highlights Why West Needs a Formal...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – Yesterday, Ukrainian and Russian media reported that Microsoft had implicitly recognized the Russian annexation of Crimea by requiring those using its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Under Putin, ‘Gerrymandering’ Enters the Russian Vocabulary
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – The process by which a government draws the electoral map in such a way that the number of its opponents in parliament will be minimized, long known in the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Russia Was and Will Remain an Empire,’ Tretyakov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – Even as evidence mounts that the Russian Federation may be more fragile than other post-Soviet states and that its aggression in Ukraine may accelerate its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Will Lead More Countries to Go...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the failure of the West so far to repel it has a longer-term consequence that few are prepared to face: The...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Unrest isn’t ‘Spreading’ from Chechnya Across the North...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – The violence in Chechnya this week has led many Russian and Western commentators to suggest that the unrest there is about to spread to other parts of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: No Need for Western Leaders to Deal with Putin Directly,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite says that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin until the Kremlin leader changes his course...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Let Russians Eat Potatoes, Novosibirsk Vice Governor Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – In words that echo those of Marie Antoinette adjusted to the circumstances of Putin’s Russia, the vice governor of Novosibirsk has suggested that Russians should stop...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Brings Back Another East German Tradition –...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 6 – During the Cold War, East Germany was notorious for the ways in which officials insisted that athletes use performance-enhancing drugs in order to win...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Supporter Wants ‘Enemy of the People’ to Again Be a...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 7 – Moscow must restore the term “enemy of the people” as a criminal charge in order to defend Russia against the information war that has been unleashed...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Absurd’ Duma Proposals Designed to Keep Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 7 – The various absurd and scandalous proposals Duma members regularly offer to the public serve the Kremlin’s purposes of keeping the opposition and the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ingermanland Finns Face Uncertain Future in Karelia
Paul Goble Staunton, December 7 – Karelia’s 441 Ingermanland Finns, whose ancestors or even who themselves were deported by Stalin in 1942, face an uncertain future despite the 1993 law on...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Should Non-Russians Who Teach Russian Think in Russian or...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 7 – Suggestions that those who teach Russian to Tuvans should think in Russian rather Tuvin has sparked a sharp debate in that republic between those who think...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Hatred for the ‘World as Such' is Something ‘Worse...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 7 – The enthusiasm of Russians for the annexation of Crimea cannot be explained by the usual kind of geopolitical calculations but rather by their desire to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Commanders Said Forcing Draftees to Sign Up for...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 8 – Reflecting Moscow’s difficulties in finding enough men to serve in the military because of Russia’s demographic decline, difficulties exacerbated by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Supports Ukraine's Territorial Integrity as a Rope...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 8 – Vladimir Putin’s declaration to visiting French President Francois Hollande that he supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine is just as hypocritical...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Non-Russian Languages under Threat Now More than They Were...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 8 – Vladimir Putin says he is concerned about “the defense and development of linguistic culture,” but he is advancing policies that threaten the future of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kyiv to Launch Satellite TV Broadcasts to Russia and...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 8 – Kyiv plans to launch satellite television broadcasting to the Russian Federation and Russian-occupied Crimea, an indication that Ukrainian officials...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Exodus of Russian Citizens from Russia, Already Massive,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 8 – The decisions by high profile Russians to go into exile because of what is happening to their country under Vladimir Putin continue to attract media...
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